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In article <1993Jan25.134613.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Nick FitzGerald <n.fitzgerald@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.135115.10741@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, skhan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
>(Shahab Raza Khan) writes:
>
>> I have an interesting question.  I want to write a batch file
>> which would do the following:
>> 
>> 1. Down load our backup software from one of our LANs.  The
>>    software is not in compressed form but regular files.
>> 2. Edit the autoexec.bat file to login to separate accounts on
>>    the LAN (e.g. user1, user2 etc)
>> 3. edit the config.tel file (for use with telnet) and change the
>>    IP number in it (e.g. 129.174.1.1 129.174.1.2 etc)
>> 
>> I have a pretty good idea of how to do the downloading would
>> work.  There are about 50 computers which have to be configured
>> with the above procedure.  So far we have used manual ways to do
>> this.  If anyone has a nice way of doing this please let me
>> know.
>
>I have followed up in News rather than mailing as requested, as this may
>be of more general interest.
>
>Believe it or not, EDLIN (that most ghastly of DOS "utilities") may be
>the answer to your problem.  Its (sole ?) virtue lies in the fact that
>it reads from stdin, so can be driven by a script file.
>
>I've never used it in this manner (I've never used full stop, he adds
>proudly  8-) ), but have seen some fiendishly clever batches in PC Mag
>based (in part) on this.

Can anyone please post an example of how to do this?  Thanks in
advance...

	--Jerry



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